Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-12-17
THE HISTORY OF CRIME.
E0rdrs Oh Theater and It's Tragic
AssOciatiOEs.

kO1UD Vic Ine8ter ana Its Tragic
Associations.
fHB YLko TORN BIT BOOTHS sPUR-scKNKs OF TIE
nAsrLpG TRAsxDY REVISITED TIRE HOUSE
wRzsK PREsrDKST LINCOLN pErD-rHE STORY OF
TIE GREAT CRIME nETop.
The gloomy looking building on Tenth street,
just half way up the hnA between and + streets,
Is giving upthe many skeletons In its closets FOR
days the pavement outside has been Uttered with
bones, and with jars and cases containing various
parts q the human body, kept by preserving fluids
from rsturring 20 dust. These CHASTITY objects
mako n brief halt on the sidewalk in transit from
the CID 20 the new Army Medical Museum, in the
building Just completed OF the southeast corner
OF the Smithsonian grounds They seem, in the
eyes OF the passer-by, IL he Is at all imaginative,
% hefghtea the gloomy effect Of the plain, dark
froat q the old building with It's severe church.
Ike frunt. That the building should have MOURN
fN air seems 1tting for here the darkest and most
startling tragedy In the nations history occurred
The m,lseum on the third floor Is now closed 20 the
public In the past thousands OF visitors have
toied up the iron stairs, attracted In part, per-
haps, by the objects 20 be seen in the museum;
but the chief interest OF everyone upon his
nrst visit 20 the building has been In
seeing the spot where President Lincoln
was shoS by Booth The building, once a
church had been remodeled into a theater, and
was known as Ford's Theater. After the memoir
able tragedy IN April, 1865 the curtain was
dropped forever, and the building was purchased
by the Government The interior was rearranged,
so that all semblance 10 a theater was destroyed.
The lower floors were turned into Offices and labo
ratOries and the third floor was given up to the
Army Medical Museum. Visitors TO the building
could have pointed out to them only the place
where the state box Inwhich President Lincoln sat-
was located They had TO imagine away the floors
a., r,,,ars that were in.rodueea IN raarranOtng
an 10, -, q, - -, 80 a
the ouioine anu ~ 'iio,, s'o'u ~,
orchestra, dress-circie, and gallery. They coud
co IN the windows I'm the rear and look down into
,ns aarr ,usv vvherp Booth left his horse standing
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ana "hne, escapns iioin the .hea'ei W o"0n
mounted and fed away into the night
foNriS6 OUT The sPn-
an show You Just where IL was" said Mr.. Flynn,
the sllperintendent of the Museum as he unused
in his work the other day to talk with STAR re-
porter MI. Flynn took the reporter 10 the cehter
OF the hail. where there Is big square opening or
,S1s na, onSDg Sown tbe reDortea cod get
view on portions OF the ground floor where clerks
were busy az desks and OF the second floor nlled
orTis relatirg 10 Thousands OF poor bows In blue
who have bsSn wounded In battle or ST ricken with
disease while In the service OF Uncle sam.
.sThe pox was there where you see that door,
said Mr.. Fiynn' pofnting out doorway on the sec
ond ioor tat lei into little ONCE divided OF by
means on a light partition from the rest OF the
went on .The stage below was about on a line
with the dark paint you see on the pillar support
ing the noor.r This pillar extended from the
ground hoor 70 sne ceiling anu tne point reIerrea
t - t me nox 10 the Stara and yop can Sea
INST how far he had TO leap. When he Jumped
IRON the bcx his spur caught in the flag with
which the oox mad been decorated anu trPped MN,
iis 1880 nr- fna - as and m rou6 Iir,ia bnII5
tn IN th roar In WHOM the actors dressing rooms
were Iocated' and by wsy Of a private door into
the alley nave heard r11ides tell visitors here
mat Booth leaned into tfse alley from mar win
doSV tbers rontino 10 one NJ the third story win
lows; you can see now absurd tnat IS II any
he Womb 10 SiIied Nearly everv vtsitor IN the
city has round MS way here OF course they are
an Interested in the historic ASSOCIATIONS of the
6n,idsng Fverv one asks WHERE fine hoy in which
Iincoln saf was located and we have ALWAYS been
Wiling and glad 10 show them. We have shown
them slao ths house oDnOstte now ocrunied nv Mr.
srhade where President incoln died M we have
meyer rad the nag which was TORN nv Room in his
Leap rom me Presidents oox on exnioition mere,
bs seen toers with the rent form nv Roof Is snrrs
We have never had ANYTHING on exhibitior here 10
recall the tragedy except three OF the ceryical
verIebr,s OF Booth with a portion Of the spinal
cord. showing where the bullet that Killed him
passed through. visitors have often asked why the
box In which the President sat was not preserved
in Ssa n, po,,n,, tho, Mr. r,,r ro,o--o,
To have 0ceuDis,i a modest plaee IN a cas-. In one
corner OF the hall Near It IN later years. has been
areminder OF another terrible crime In the form
VI VIE - pss,r ~ su9 oou' I'll "'ea"' INC
!" r'eS'uens oaine
The fOkS FLAG.
On the night President Lincoln was assassnated
the box he occupied was decorated and drained
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the stage below tine spur ne wore upon BIS right
foot caught In the folds OF one OF the flags, and
tore a rent In IT, The flag as MI Flynn STATED f.
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The GREAT TRAGEDY.
Tne ASSASSINATION, recalled by the old nag, and
OF Wnicn the OLD building on Tenth street remains
Is solemn reminder, was one OF the deepest tragic
interest," In al us details IL seemed 10 show forth
the Inclination OF the assassin's mind toward
theatrical elects
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